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PATTI SMITH thanked officials at the American Society of Composers, Autho rs and Publishers when she picked up a special award on Wednesday (21Apr1 0) - insisting their royalty cheques helped her through tough times.
The Because The Night singer was presented with the lifetime achievemen t honour at the 27th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles, and re vealed the cash she receives in royalties helped her raise her two young kids after her husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith’s death in 1994.
She told the assembled audience, "I was actually down on my luck. And w hat helped bail me out and helped me get back to my feet were the ASCAP c heques that I got for Because the Night.
"I just thought you did your record and that was it. And the first time I got these cheques, I said, ‘I already got paid for that song.’ So I’m grateful in good times, and I was very grateful in hard times." Other winners at the awards included The Killers, who were honoured for their contribution to the industry, while Dr Luke, who has penned hits f or Katy Perry, Flo Rida and Miley Cyrus, was named songwriter of the year ..
Singer Jason Mraz won the song of the year trophy for his smash single I’m Yours, which holds the record for most weeks in the U.S. charts.
Record giant EMI Music was named publisher of the year, after a stellar 2009 which saw the release of 15 award-winning songs.

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KELLY CLARKSON is fuming her appearance in billboard ads for cigarette co mpany Diarum has marred her upcoming show in Indonesia - because she neve r consented to the promos.
The tobacco firm’s bosses are sponsoring the Since U Been Gone hitmaker ’s 29 April (10) concert in Jakarta - and they’ve splashed their L.A. Lig hts brand logo all over posters advertising the show.
The American Idol winner was slammed by Matt Myers, the president of th e Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, for appearing in the ads.
He said, "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choi ce being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children." But Clarkson is disgusted at the suggestion she should cancel her show to make a stand - because she refuses to disappoint her loyal fans.
In a post on her blog, she writes, "My morning began with finding out t hat I am all over billboards, TV ads, and other media formats alongside a tobacco company who unbeknownst to me is sponsoring my Jakarta date on m y current tour. I was not made aware of this and am in no way an advocate or an ambassador for youth smoking. I’m not even a smoker, nor have I ev er been.
"Unfortunately, my only option at this point was to cancel the show in order to stop the sponsorship. However, I can’t justify penalising my fan s for someone else’s oversight. This is a lose-lose situation for me and I am not happy about it but the damage has been done and I refuse to canc el on my fans.
"I think the hardest part of situations like this is getting personally attacked for something I was completely unaware of and being used as som e kind of political pawn."

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British royal CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL has suffered her second injury in as many weeks - she’s slipped a shoulder tendon just days after break ing her leg hillwalking.
The wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, has been using crutches and a whe elchair since the accident in Scotland on 7 April (10) and her leg has be en encased in plaster.
And now the 62 year old is nursing a painful shoulder, too.
She says, "The leg doesn’t hurt at all. It’s the rest of it that hurts when I’m trying to lug myself about. Unfortunately I’ve slipped a tendon in my shoulder. I’ve got no leg, and an arm on one side, and no arm and a leg on the other."

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Bollywood star LISA RAY feels "reborn" after undergoing radical stem-cell treatment to help her beat cancer.
Last June (09) the Kasoor star was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a r are type of bone marrow cancer which is usually incurable, with treatment s focusing on keeping the disease contained.
In a blog announcement last September (09), Ray insisted she would not give up battling her cancer - defiantly stating she was "aiming for full remission".
She wrote, "I didn’t react and I didn’t cry. That’s how I felt after th e diagnosis: ‘OK, I’ve got The Cancer. The tough part is over.
"Myeloma is incurable… (but) I believe it can be cured… That’s the Dirty Realist in me… I’m aiming for Full Remission… I am humbled and inspired." In a new interview with Reuters, the 38 year old praises the groundbrea king stem-cell treatment she has received.
She says, "This (cancer) has hijacked my life for long enough and now I am going to take matters into my own hands.
"It’s really been a kind of rebirth (treatment). It’s like being reborn from the inside out. It’s a big cleaning from the middle of your marrow and spreading out." And Ray insists even losing her famed glossy locks has been a positive experience: "My hair is coming back and it is looking awesome right now. I am just loving it. It is the sleekest and most well-put together I have ever looked. But I have enjoyed being bald."

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CUBA GOODING JR. resurrected his JERRY MAGUIRE catchphrase during a night out in Spokane, Washington - taking over the bar’s microphone and tellin g revellers to "Show me the money".
The actor is currently in the state to film new movie The Hit List with Christian Slater.
Video footage, obtained by TMZ.com, shows the star making a drunken spe ech at a local bar, winning over the crowd with his famous movie quote an d a patriotic tribute to his native U.S.
He is seen grabbing a microphone and stepping up on a stage, telling ba r-goers, "Show me the money. Show me the money!", a line from his 1996 fi lm with Tom Cruise.
In a rambling speech, he added, "We are going to represent in the next five years, because you know what - we are the best country in the mother f**king world. And that’s how we are going to do it. May those who love u s all over the world, love us. May those who don’t… may God bless their hearts. God bless the U.S.A."

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Funnyman SETH ROGEN has been named the hardest working man in Hollywood - 10 of his movies have made more than $20 million (=C2=A313 million) at t he U.S. box office in the last five years.
The Knocked Up actor has topped a new poll by Forbes to find the stars making the most films and the most money for studios since 2005.
He beat out competition from veteran actor Morgan Freeman, who came sec ond in the list, shooting nine movies which garnered more than $20 millio n (=C2=A313 million) in revenue.
Freeman’s Invictus co-star Matt Damon came third, with eight high-earni ng movies in the last half-decade, while comic Will Ferrell came a close fourth.
Iron Man’s Robert Downey, Jr. and Snakes On A Plane star Samuel L. Jack son are at five and six respectively, with seven films apiece.
Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep are the only women to make the top 10 - they both have also starred in seven hit box office outings in the last five years.
Transformers actor Shia LaBeouf and Batman Christian Bale round out the top 10 with six high-grossing movies.

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TOM SIZEMORE used his acting skills to help him cope with prison - he wou ld recite Shakespearean plays to pass the time in his cell.
The Saving Private Ryan actor was jailed for 17 months in 2005 after fa iling drug tests while on probation for assaulting his then girlfriend, H ollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, two years earlier (03).
And Sizemore reveals he endured life behind bars by focusing on his lov e of The Bard - writing down excerpts from his favourite plays and reciti ng them to keep his "brain working".
He tells U.S. newsman Larry King, "I didn’t do drugs in prison. I focus ed on not losing myself. There wasn’t a lot of fighting. I had to fight a few times and I can handle myself. I’ll take a beating, I don’t care.
"But in prison, it’s different. Taking a beating could be your last bea ting. I know Shakespeare a lot. I know it well. I remember full plays alm ost. I’ve (a) really great memory. I wrote down as many of the plays I’ve been in that I can remember the lines that I had and other characters I had. I wrote down the movies I had been in.
"I wrote them out to make sure my brain was still working and to keep m yself - I have a good imagination, I could disappear into (acting)… Whe n I played Iago (in Othello), I still know what I did when I was 21." (MJ

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SANDRA BULLOCK has graciously agreed to return her Golden Raspberry award after accidentally collecting the original "priceless" trophy instead of a cheap replica made for the winners.
The 45 year old was handed the Worst Actress Razzie last month (Mar10) for her role in All About Steve.
But last week (ends18Apr10) the ceremony’s co-founder John Wilson revea led the star was handed the original trophy, which is worth thousands of dollars, instead of a replica version intended for her.
He urged Bullock to give back the prize - and she’s graciously agreed t o his request.
Her publicist Cheryl Maisel tells E! News, "We were never contacted by them to return the Razzie. I contacted them yesterday to check the validi ty of the story and was only told then that we had been given the wrong a ward. We will be returning the Razzie to them shortly."

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One of the doctors accused of illegally supplying ANNA NICOLE SMITH with prescription pills has filed papers asking a judge to drop some of the ch arges against him.
Dr. Sandeep Kapoor is alleged to have conspired with Dr. Khristine Eros hevich and Smith’s former lawyer/boyfriend Howard K. Stern to provide the late model with drugs before her death from an accidental overdose in Fe bruary 2007.
All three have pleaded not guilty to a total of 23 felony charges.
Kapoor’s legal team has now lodged a request to have several of the cha rges against him dropped, filing papers at a court in California. He clai ms he began prescribing pills to Smith before he met Eroshevich and later refused to sign off a prescription list which Eroshevich handed to him, according to TMZ.com.
He is also challenging the allegation that he obtained drugs for the st ar by "fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation," insisting he used a pseudony m for Smith’s prescriptions in a bid to protect her privacy.
If a judge grants the request, Kapoor will still face four other charge s.

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TOM SIZEMORE has apologised to his former boss MICHAEL MANN on U.S. TV - admitting he reached his lowest point after the director refused to take his calls following the cancellation of their show ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVIS ION.
The troubled actor has battled substance abuse since the late 1990s, bu t managed to secure roles in high-profile movies including Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.
In 2002, he landed a part in Mann’s TV cop series Robbery Homicide Divi sion, which instantly won praise from critics, but the show was cancelled after 10 episodes, ending the following year (03).
Although the series failed to compete with rival police programme Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the ratings, Sizemore is convinced the sh ow was axed following his arrest for assaulting his then-girlfriend, Holl ywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
And the star insists he reached his darkest days when his boss and pal Mann wouldn’t speak to him.
In an interview with U.S. newsman Larry King, he says, "Michael Mann wo uldn’t return any of my phone calls. He’s a great director, but he was my friend… I fell a great distance. Michael, if you see this, I’m very so rry.
"(My lowest point was) calling the office and the gentleman (on the pho ne), saying, ‘Tom, he just doesn’t want to talk to you’. I mean over and over. The first time I went, ‘Why?’ Well, I know why, because of what I w as doing. I said, ‘Tell him I need to (speak to him)’.
"It wasn’t (that) he was being mean… He was angry about the show bein g cancelled, Robbery Homicide Division, which was one of the greatest cri me dramas ever made.
"I was the star of it and I got arrested during it. That may have cance lled it. Who knows? I have a great deal of guilt about that and I’m very sorry for it, but it happened…. Michael was my friend. He wasn’t a dire ctor guy I worked with."

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MIA FARROW has urged NAOMI CAMPBELL to "step up" and testify at the trial of Liberia’s former president - after the disgraced ex-leader was accuse d of gifting the supermodel with a ‘blood diamond’.
Ex-president Charles Taylor has been accused of backing rebel fighters responsible for widespread atrocities during the war in neighbouring Sier ra Leone.
Prosecutors at his trial in the Netherlands have also alleged Taylor to ok diamonds mined in the area to South Africa to "sell… or exchange for weapons".
Taylor is facing allegations he handed one of these ‘blood diamonds’ - a term for jewels sold to finance conflicts - to Campbell in 1997 when sh e attended a dinner party in South Africa, hosted by then-president Nelso n Mandela.
And Farrow, who was also at the bash, is listed as a trial witness, as she alleges Campbell told her about her unusual present over breakfast th e next morning.
She tells America’s ABC News, "Naomi Campbell came down… she said dur ing the night some men had knocked on her door and she, half-asleep, had opened the door and it was representatives of President Charles Taylor an d that they had given her a huge diamond. And we were like, ‘Oh, my gosh.
‘ You don’t forget when a girlfriend tells you she was given a huge diamo nd in the middle of the night. There’s no doubt in my mind. All I thought was, ‘Gosh, what an amazing life Naomi Campbell has. Probably lots of me n are always giving her diamonds.’" She adds, "Absolutely (Campbell should testify), step up and do your pa rt." A spokesperson for Campbell has previous stated the supermodel has been cooperating with the prosecution. But an ABC News report alleges she rea cted angrily when asked about the incident at her recent charity fashion show in New York, snapping: "I didn’t receive a diamond and I’m not going to speak about that".
Taylor, 61, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crime s against humanity stemming from the brutal 1991-2001 civil war in Sierra Leone.

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Actress and fitness guru JANE FONDA eats by colour.
The one-time work-out queen and Monster-in-Law star admits her palate i s like a palette.
She tells U.S. news show Extra, "I have dark, purple (items) every sing le day - blackberries and blueberries. I always have dark green broccoli or asparagus (and) something red, something orange."

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Former WESTLIFE singer BRIAN MCFADDEN has defended his decision to slam h is ex-wife KERRY KATONA on Twitter.com - insisting he needed to vent his anger.
McFadden, who is now engaged to Delta Goodrem, has lost two legal battl es to regain custody of his daughters with Katona, who he divorced in 200 6 after four years of marriage.
The singer was left fuming after Katona told a U.K. tabloid he barely s peaks to his girls, Molly and Lilly-Sue, and launched a bitter verbal att ack on the reality TV star on the social networking site last week (ends1 8Apr10).
He called Katona a "pig face mole", adding, "Kerry Katona ….. YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!" McFadden now admits he wouldn’t have launched the attack if he had thou ght about it more clearly - but he’s frustrated with the ongoing custody battle.
He says, "I was so infuriated when I read it and it was so typical. I j ust lost it and (went) straight on Twitter. You know probably the things I said, if I had’ve sat down and thought about it and spoke to a journali st about it, I wouldn’t have said it. But at the end of the day I spoke f rom the heart. I was angry and I got my point across. I might have been a bit over-the-top, but at least I got my point across and I got to vent." And he’s hoping he will one day be able to move his daughters over to A ustralia, adding, "Molly’s nine in August and Lilly’s now seven, so there ’s only a few more years until they can pretty much do what they want. I would like to bring them to Australia one day and I know they want to com e… I don’t know (Katona) anymore and I don’t know what goes through her mind."

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American death metal band ACHERON is planning to split - after 22 years t ogether.
The group was founded in 1988 in Ohio by musician Vincent Crowle, but t hey shocked fans earlier this week (begs19Apr10) by announcing they will "be done for good" soon.
The band reveals the news in a post on its MySpace page entitled ‘ACHER ON 1988-2010 (Call it Quits) Farewell Shows Coming…’.
But there is some good news for Acheron fans - they will head out on th e road for a final tour in January (11).

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA has brushed off accusations from AKON that she’s copyi ng the look and sound of LADY GAGA - insisting she’s not worried about th e criticism.
The R&B singer, who takes credit for discovering Gaga after he signed h er to his KonLive label at Interscope Records in 2007, has slated Aguiler a for "trying to do the exact same thing musically" as the Poker Face hit maker on her upcoming album Bionic.
But Aguilera has spoken out about the comparisons, insisting she doesn’ t have to prove herself.
She says, "It just comes with the territory. That, in particular, is no t even worth wasting the breath to comment on. I’ve been around for over a decade and I think my work speaks for myself."

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Rapper GURU’s former Gang Starr collaborator DJ PREMIER has paid tribute to the star, describing him as "a brother" - despite his late friend repo rtedly slating him in a farewell letter.
The hip-hop legend was admitted to a New York medical facility in Febru ary (10) after he suffered a heart attack and slipped into a coma. He was diagnosed with anoxia, a condition where the body lacks an adequate supp ly of oxygen.
It was later revealed Guru, real name Keith Elam, was also battling can cer, but chose to keep the news private. He passed away on Monday (19Apr1 0).
Following his death, his business partner Solar released a letter from Guru, in which he apparently wrote that his final wish was that Premier, who he reportedly hadn’t spoken to in seven years, must not be attached t o anything using his "likeness, events, tributes etc." or "connected in a ny way to my situation", reports AllHipHop.com.
The request raised speculation the letter isn’t real, but in a post on Solar’s Twitter.com page he slammed the reports, writing, "Guru made this statement from his own mouth and anybody saying different is insane with Hate!" But despite the controversy surrounding their alleged fractured relatio nship, Premier has issued his own statement honouring his former colleagu e and claiming the pair was planning to reunite for a seventh album.
He writes, "It was a sad day for me to get confirmation on the death of a man who I will continue to call my brother, Keith Elam, better known a s Guru of the legendary Gang Starr… I=E2=80=99ve been asked to comment on a letter speaking ill of me which was supposedly written by Guru in hi s dying days. All I will say about it is that our time together was beaut iful, we built a hip-hop legacy together, and no one can re-write history or take away my love for him… I love you Goo… DJ Premier." (KD/WNWCA

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SIR ELTON JOHN, SLASH, JENNIFER GARNER and MORGAN FREEMAN teamed up for A MERICAN IDOL’s all-star charity event on Wednesday night (21Apr10) - help ing to raise $15 million (=C2=A39.4 million) during the U.S. TV fundraise r.
They were joined by other stars including Victoria Beckham, Queen Latif ah, Jim Carrey, Common, Jonah Hill and Russell Brand for the Idol Gives B ack special.
Garner shot a video, which was shown during the night, showing her char ity trip to a rural area of Appalachian Kentucky where 45 per cent of chi ldren grow up in poverty.
Urging viewers to donate, she said, "Four-year-olds who grow up in pove rty are 18 months behind (other children). It’s not fair. These are prett y sweet kids. They deserve anything - anything - we can do to help them." Meanwhile, Mary J. Blige delivered an all-star performance of Led Zeppe lin classic Stairway to Heaven alongside Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, American Idol judge and bassist Randy Jackson, famed guitarist Steve Vai and Michael Jackson’s former guitarist Orianthi. Sir Elton John, the Bla ck Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, Jeff Beck and Joss Stone als o performed.
And Annie Lennox, who was originally scheduled to appear live, was so m oved by the plight she arranged a satellite performance after being stran ded in London due to the heavy clouds of volcanic ash which grounded flig hts across Europe following an eruption in Iceland on Thursday (15Apr10).
Idol Gives Back bosses reported donations of more than $140 million (=C2 =A387.5 million) in 2010 prior to the televised charity show.
The cash raised will go to help U.S. and international charities includ ing the Children’s Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save th e Children’s U.S. Programs and the United Nations Foundation. (JMA&CL/WN/

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British actor RUPERT GRINT was left red-faced when he first watched his n ew movie CHERRYBOMB - because he had to sit alongside his parents as his sex scene was screened.
The Harry Potter star appears as a troubled teenager in the film, along side actress Kimberley Nixon.
Movie bosses sent Grint a preview of the film and his parents were eage r to watch the clip - but the 21 year old admits he found watching the se x scene more embarrassing than shooting it in the first place.
He says, "Filming it was a really nerve-wracking experience but the wor st bit was watching it with my parents. It was agonising. The scene’s qui te tastefully done but it’s not the sort of moment you really want to sha re with your mum and dad.
"When the scene arrived we all sat there not really saying anything. Af terwards nobody talked about it, which was kind of a relief." (KD/WNTMI/C

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